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NOTABLE NEW BOOKS BY ALUMNI

Roy Rowan '41,; who covered the world for 50 years for Time, Life and Fortune, offers what Tom Brokaw calls a "spellbinding account" of Chinas civil war in Chasing the Dragon:A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949Chinese Revolution (Lyons Press).

R, Barton: Palmer '68, Clemson University literature professor and director of the South Carolina Film Institute, examines the critical and commercial success of two postmodernist filmmakers —and brothers—in Joel andEthan Coen (University of Illinois Press).

David Benioff '92 follows his bestselling crime drama The 25thHour—not to mention his screenplay of the Brad Pitt movie, Troy—with When the Nines RollOver and Other Stories (Viking), an eclectic short-story collection that explores the range of experiences that characterize modem adult life.

Ric Bucher "83, NBA analyst and senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, tracks the rise of 7-foot-5 Chinese NBA center Yao Ming in Yao:A Life in Two Worlds (Miramax Books).

Bruce Judson 'BO, a faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management, explains how to build a substantial business without hiring employees and without raising capital in Go It Alone! (HarperBusiness).

Robert Button '36 offers a memoir of his

time as an Army intelligence officer working with the Voice of America and during the early days of satellite communications in Enigma in Many Keys: The Life and Lettersof a WW II Intelligence Officer (iUniverse).

Harry Jeffrey '59, director of the Richard Nixon Oral History Project at the California State University at Fullerton, has co-edited a collection of essays on the Watergate scandal's continuing impact on the institutional power of the American chief executive in Watergate and the Resignation ofRichard Nixon: Impact of a ConstitutionalCrisis (CQ Press).

Brian C. O'Connor '69, coordinator of the interdisciplinary information science Ph.D. program at the University of North Texas, has two new books, both published by Scarecrow Books. He examines the nature and meaning of photographs in Photo Provocations: Thinking In, With and AboutPhotographs, which includes an accompanying CD; and he explores approaches to document seeking in Hunting and Gathering on the Information Savanna: Conversationson Modeling Human Search Abilities.

John Tallmadge '69, litertaure and environmental studies professor at Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio, finds beauty in the urban landscape around him in Cincinnati Arch: Learningfrom Nature in the City (University of Georgia Press).

Carl Little '76, art critic and essayist, has gathered together a collection of essays by faculty and students who have participated in programs at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine, in Discovery: Fifty Years of Craft Experience atHaystack Moauntain School of Crafts (University of Maine Press).

Stephen Shmanske '76, economics professor at California State University, Hayward, uses economics to explore the business side of golf—and uses golf statistics to shed light on several issues in economics in Golfonomics (World Scientific).

Jeffrey Gimble '77, a biotechnology entrepreneur, offers tips on for anyone starting a career in biotechnology and for the academicians who train them in Academia toBiotechnology: Career Changes at Any Stage (Academic Press).

Peter Slovenski '79, head track and field coach at Bowdoin College, has collected reflections on the cultural standards that were admired in the first half of the 1900s in Old School America: 511 Reflections on theTraditional and Patriotic Values that Best Define America (Towlehouse).

Pam Brill '82, an organization development psychologist who consulted with Big Green sports teams through the 1990s, provides a method for meeting life's challenges in The Winner's Way: A ProvenMethod for Achieving Your Personal Best inAnyGiven Situation (McGraw-Hill).

Jim Collins '84, former Big Green second baseman, chronicles a season in the world's finest amateur baseball league, the Cape Cod Baseball League, in The Last BestLeague: One Summer, One Season, One Dream (Da Capo Press).

Albrecht Enders '96, an associate with Boston Consulting Group, looks at the rise, fall and subsequent consolidation of the e-business world from a strategic perspective in Strategies for E-business:Creating Value through Electronic and MobileCommerce (Financial Times/Prentice Hall).